Setting a Tea Dance Record
Setting a world record can rarely have been so much fun.
Under blue skies and sunshine, hundreds of people of all ages, shapes and sizes grabbed the first partner to hand and jived across London’s Trafalgar Square.
Five minutes later they had tripped their way into the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest ever open air tea dance, with 195 couples counted.
White-bearded men twirled pretty girls, while silver-haired ladies waltzed with fit young men. Children on a school trip and even a pair of Pearly Queens joined in the melee.
Participants and onlookers - many clutching a free cup of tea - all seemed to be having a thoroughly good time.
Ray Bub - Running Rings Round the Teapot World
“In art, clumsy art can be as meaningful as graceful art,” Bub said during a May 17 interview at his Oak Bluffs pottery studio. “Anyone can tell their story. There is no ‘right answer,’ as in math. If you make it the way you like it, you’ve made a beauty that wasn’t there before.”
The Artist
A Chemical Brew
It’s the complex mix of chemicals in a cup of tea that is ultimately responsible for the medical benefits that we listed in our last article. The big class of chemicals in tea are flavonoids - a natural class of antioxidants that can be found in many of our natural plant-derived foods.
These antioxidants combat free-radicals in the body - free-radicals being damaged cells caused by pollution, ageing, chemicals in foods and many other trappings of a modern life. These free-radicals interact badly with healthy cells in the body and create opportunites for medical problems such as heart disease or cancer.